| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: life, pictures,and reading, and arranged in fantastically novel
forms by the unchecked caprices of sleep.
For some time I accepted
the visions as natural, even though I had never before been an
extravagant dreamer. Many of the vague anomalies, I argued, must
have come from trivial sources too numerous to track down; while
others seemed to reflect a common text book knowledge of the plants
and other conditions of the primitive world of a hundred and fifty
million years ago - the world of the Permian or Triassic age.
In the course of some months, however, the element of terror
did figure with accumulating force. This was when the dreams began
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: quiet of the ferry-boat, where they would sit side
by side under the snow, in the motionless carriage,
while the earth seemed to glide away under them,
rolling to the other side of the sun. It was incredible,
the number of things he had to say to her, and in what
eloquent order they were forming themselves on his
lips . . .
The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer,
and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey-
laden monster into its lair. Archer pushed forward,
elbowing through the crowd, and staring blindly into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: his posture of attention, and ordered, that if lord
Lofty called on him that morning, he should be
shown into the best parlour.
My patience was yet not wholly subdued. I was
willing to promote his satisfaction, and therefore
observed that the figures on the china were
eminently pretty. Prospero had now an opportunity of
calling for his Dresden china, which, says he, I
always associate with my chased tea-kettle. The cups
were brought; I once resolved not to have looked
upon them, but my curiosity prevailed. When I had
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